How to copy scanned PDF to Word
In this article we will share with you very useful tips that how to copy scanned PDF to Word. You may have this question in your mind that how do i copy and paste from a scanned pdf.
May times this may happen with you during office work, that you have a printout of a letter or document, but you don’t have its soft copy to edit.
In such situations you may end up with typing a whole document to make reply to that letter or document, if document have large pages than it is not advisable to type such long document.
I will tell you that using some tips and trick you can copy a scan document into word file, even make a scan document searchable.
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How to copy scanned PDF to Word
The main technology behind this conversion is called OCR (Optical Character Recognition). Some scanners have inbuilt this feature, so you need not to do anything special to make document editable using these scanners.
Due to advancement in technology, there are many options are available now in free also to convert a scan document into word document. Let’s discuss some popular methods from them.
We will explain you some of the methods on How to copy scanned PDF to Word. Using them you can easily copy pasted from scanned PDF document to Word file.
How to copy scanned PDF to Word using Scanner itself
In the most of business scanners, you can find an option to choose scan output file as “pdf/a” format. This file format has feature to copy from the document and even you can search inside the scan document. So next time when you are going to scan a document from your office scanner choose this file format to make life easier.
How to copy scanned PDF to Word using MS office inbuilt PDF to word converter
Most people are unaware that your modern MS Office (2013 or later) having feature to convert a pdf file into word file using MS Word application.
To convert a PDF file to word just right click over the PDF file, and open that using MS Word, it will take some time and convert the scanned pdf file into word format. You can now easily edit this document.
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How to copy scanned PDF to Word Using One Drive and Google Drive:
These both cloud platforms have tremendous capabilities. You can upload a scan document into the One Drive or Google Drive. When you upload the scan files their inbuilt OCR make them searchable, so that you can search from the scan documents inside Google Drive and One drive.
This is very useful to search a medical prescription, document etc. even you have forgot to rename the file and uploaded from your mobile.
After uploading the scan pdf file into Google Drive, right click over the file, and now open the file using Google Docs, in One Drive open the file using desktop word app.
In both the methods your file will converted to MS word, that you can download in your computer for further editing.
Copy Texts from Scan document Using Professional versions of Adobe Acrobat or Foxit Phantom PDF
The professional PDF editors have feature to make scan document OCR compatible. Using these PDF editors, you can make a scam document editable.
Wrap Up
In this article we have described many options to your on How to copy scanned PDF to Word. All the options are easy to use and available with your except professional versions of PDF editors.
You can also use help of online PDF to word converters to convert a Scan PDF to editable word document.